Parenting Level: Awesome

[jodielyn10]

This is just responsible decision-making here...

www.buzzfeed.com/mikespohr/23-things-parents-used-to-do-that-would-get-major-side-eye-t

[summergirl1211]

OMG, too funny! The baby on the top of the tv is awesome. And what's with all the guns??

In grade school my best friend and I would go sledding behind her dad's car. We wouldn't go super fast, but the road was narrow and there was a stream along side it (we were out in the country). No one thought anything of it.

[mommymadness]

Hahaha! I remember doing a few I these!

[jennmm]

Done a few of those as a child. I have sledded being pulled by a lawnmower before. That's how we rolled down here in Georgia in the 80s!

[jodielyn10]

Many many trips in the back of my dad's truck.

[roo1582]

Haha, yep I've lived through several of those.

[bliz1712]

Pulling sleds behind a snowmobile is still common around here. And when i was younger we went on vacation and drove there. It was at least an 8 hour drive so my parents set up an air mattress, blankets, and pillows in the bed of the pickup truck with a topper. My friend and I traveled the whole way there playing games and just relaxing.

[mightybee]

Love it. Makes me feel better about some of my parenting choices. Except the pretending with cigarettes picture. That's just plain stupid.

[paddyb]

I definitely laughed at some of the pictures -- they represented things very familiar to me. Like the fact that my dad got my sister a compound bow for her 5th birthday and we used to shoot metal tipped arrows into the shed.

[trixi282]

Yep, a few of these definitely look familiar.

I saw most of these same pictures the other day, and there were a few others in it too, like a girl sleeping on the back of the seat in a car (like up by the window)... totally safe, right?

When my mom moved us kids to MN, my brother and I totally filled the floor of the backseat with pillows and bags to level off the backseat and make a big 'bed' to sleep MOTN while my mom drove. We most certainly did not wear our seatbelts while sleeping back there either. I was 6 years old (almost 7), he was 9. These days I'd still be in a booster seat for sure.

[aimeefarrahfowler]

Whatever you do, don't scroll down to the comments section.

[summergirl1211]

Apr 9, 2015 10:21:37 GMT -5 aimeefarrahfowler said:

Whatever you do, don't scroll down to the comments section.

aimeefarrahfowler, and now, of course, I have to go check them! 

[trixi282]

Apr 9, 2015 11:26:45 GMT -5 summergirl1211 said:

Apr 9, 2015 10:21:37 GMT -5 aimeefarrahfowler said:

Whatever you do, don't scroll down to the comments section.

aimeefarrahfowler, and now, of course, I have to go check them! 

I read a few and there's one lady who responds to a lot of the comments like "is it really that bad, or are you just overprotective?"  Clearly she's a parent of kids that are of the generation pictured. 

I most certainly don't consider myself overprotective.  I let J get into things that she probably shouldn't at times to see how far she'll get.  I didn't baby-proof my entire apartment/house when she was little... I never wore a helmet while riding my bike, but she will because drivers are a lot more aggressive and a lot more distracted (with technology) than they used to be!

I agree, we did make it out alive (those of us here...) but again  "Know better, do better".  Just because I turned out okay and my mom smoked her entire pregnancy and my entire childhood doesn't mean that it's "perfectly fine" for kids to be exposed to that now!  We know smoke is harmful to the human body, first hand, and second hand, and now even third hand smoke (clothing, pillows, etc) has been evaluated and determined unsafe as well. 

KNOW BETTER, DO BETTER.

[MissMusic]

Apr 9, 2015 7:42:44 GMT -5 summergirl1211 said:

OMG, too funny! The baby on the top of the tv is awesome. And what's with all the guns??

In grade school my best friend and I would go sledding behind her dad's car. We wouldn't go super fast, but the road was narrow and there was a stream along side it (we were out in the country). No one thought anything of it.

IKR?!  All the gunzz!  HAHAHAHA